At IT Ally, Michael is the lead advisor for SMB leadership teams and their investors, and helps them to increase the value of their company by maximizing their technology investments and managing cybersecurity risk to ultimately future proof their businesses.

At the IT Ally Institute, Michael leads the research, best practices, thought leadership and peer to peer programs for business and IT leaders at small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

At fraXtion, Michael is a co-founder of the “advice as a service” company and lead IT fraXtioner where SMBs can gain access to executive-level experts across business-critical functional areas at an affordable price.

At CU Ally, Michael is the lead advisor for Credit Union leadership teams and their members, and helps them to increase the value of their institute by maximizing their technology investments and managing cybersecurity risk to ultimately future proof their businesses.

His first book, Tech Debt 2.0™: How to Future Proof Your Small Business and Improve Your Tech Bottom Line, was published by the IT Ally Institute in April, 2020.

Michael earned his bachelor of business degree from The Hagen School of Business at Iona College and is a contributing author of The Alignment Effect (Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002) and Winning The 3-Legged Race: When Business and Technology Run Together (BTM Institute/Prentice Hall, Nov. 8, 2005) as well as several articles and research reports.

Michael is on the Board of Directors of INTERalliance, a non-profit that promotes careers in information technology to high school students in the greater Cincinnati region. He is the founding member and chair of the IT Leadership Roundtable for the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and Opinion Columnist for several industry publications such as CEO World and CDO Magazine. He resides in Mason, Ohio with his wife and is the proud father of 3 children and became a grandfather for the first time in 2020.